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Furthermore, this process is fueled by enormous economic forces, which intensifies dependence on automation and spawns other sociological consequences. Other consequences include pervasive invasion of privacy, and overdependence on technology at the expense of developing critical reasoning, judgement, and a personal sense of responsibility.

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This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more.

Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here.

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Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the use of computers to improve the delivery of social services. The authors adopt a holistic approach to avoid dehumanization of clients and focus on the philosophical justification of computerization and its conceptual or symbolic nature.

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Dissidents around the world use the Internet to evade censorship and get their message out.

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This work examines the political choices that surround the new technologies of telecommunications and broadcasting, and focuses on the essential issues of who determines how they are implemented and why, as well as who benefits from them.

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The work analyzes the legal and political economy implications of investment in the software programming industry and the near-futility of monitoring protection of intellectual property in industry.

The book begins by exploring the current state of copyright laws for computer software.

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Interactive cable television, satellite broadcasting, facsimile, viewdata, and teletext have all been in use or on trial for several years and give a basis for understanding how the integrated electronic media of the future will develop.

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Reviews the consequences of the information revolution. It discusses the revolution's implications in five areas of human activity: business and financial capital; the workplace and human capital; academia and publishing; politics, internationalism and citizenship; and the "information society".

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Reviews the consequences of the information revolution. It discusses the revolution's implications in five areas of human activity: business and financial capital; the workplace and human capital; academia and publishing; politics, internationalism and citizenship; and the "information society".

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An examination of the social impact of the Internet, this volume explores political, social, technical, legal, and economic controversies in a manner accessible to the general reader.

Today more than one billion people worldwide use the Internet for communication, shopping, business, and research.

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Packed with case studies drawn from around the world, The Internet presents a clear and up-to-date introduction to the social, cultural, technological and political worlds this new media form is creating.

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Packed with case studies drawn from around the world, The Internet presents a clear and up-to-date introduction to the social, cultural, technological and political worlds this new media form is creating.

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Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking.

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It'll be online.

Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Forbes magazine, has interviewed all the major players in this new era of activism including Julian Assange - and blows the cover of a key activist, previously only presumed to exist, named The Architect who accomplished for at least two leak sites exactly what his name implies.

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This book tells the story of the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. It introduces a collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries.

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A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.

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Takes a look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization - voice mail, e-mail, bar codes, desktops, laptops, networks, and the Web - have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world.

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The complex world of online piracy and peer-to-peer file sharing is skillfully condensed into an easy-to-understand guide that provides insight into the criminal justice approach to illegal file sharing, while offering guidance to parents and students who have concerns about potential legal action in response to file-sharing activities.

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"The authors develop a framework for introducing coding in the science classroom, in which coding is a form of embodied activity, expression, and language"--

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An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.

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